Hughes v. PeaceHealth

*145GILLETTE, J.

In this wrongful death action, the personal representative of a deceased person challenges the trial court’s application of the statutory damages cap set out at ORS 31.710 to the jury’s award of damages. Plaintiff argues that, as applied in her case, ORS 31.710 violates two provisions of the Oregon Constitution — the “remedy’ guarantee set out in Article I, section 10, and the right to a jury trial set out in Article I, section 17. The Court of Appeals rejected those arguments, along with an additional argument that the trial court had erred in ordering defendant to pay interest…